Greer Macallister > Quotes

“I chose not to care. And if it scared me at first how easy it was to make myself feel differently about something by simply deciding it, I decided I could ignore that too.”
― Greer Macallister, Girl in Disguise

“Life is always better than death. Always. No exceptions.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us; yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“But this is life, and when bad things come to us, there isn't much choice. You survive them or you don't.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applause. Not because of luck or favor or magic. Because of will. My will. I've been willing to do whatever it takes. That's the closest thing I have to a secret. And now it's yours."

It's a lot to think about, and he can't quite digest it. But there's a spark there. Maybe she's right about him. Maybe it is up to him, how much he lets the bullet, and the fear, take over his life. Maybe. Not a curse, but a choice. His agency and no one else's.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“We always have a choice. Sometimes it’s just the will we lack.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“I don't want to leave you."
"You're not leaving me", he said. "I'm yours, wherever I go.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“What a vulnerable vessel the human body makes for the human soul.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us; yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“Because I know what monsters are, she says, and I can't be in that company. So tell what you are, then if not a monster..a fool, she says”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“You almost died? You’ve got fear and amazement in you. Use them.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“Science has failed you, so you need magic.” “Yes. I need magic.” It’s a relief to admit it, to say it so nakedly.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“She has endured worse than this man’s disdain. And she has a choice in how deeply she lets him cut her.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“Women can do far more than the narrow lens of society deems fitting. I suspect there is nothing, literally nothing, of which women are not capable.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“I was beginning to suspect that the main difference between rich women and whores lay mostly in the accessories.”
― Greer Macallister, Girl in Disguise

“how the worst pain, no matter how terrible, could recede into the past. At some point, it no longer breathed into one’s ear like a hungry wolf. The minor irritations of daily existence became irritating again.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“Armed with the garments of a woman I would never know, accepting the help of the only woman I truly knew and trusted, I was ready to become the woman I wanted to be.”
― Greer Macallister, Girl in Disguise

“It was the first thing Virginia noticed about her. The second: she was as homely as a toad.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“No one can provide bounty while withholding approval in the same way as the rich.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“When he settles her feet and the chair’s feet both”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“not to believe what she’d said. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly not the last.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“Oh, don’t look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“I might be a prisoner but I didn’t have to be a victim.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“But one’s upbringing helped determine one’s definition of luxury,”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“moment”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“don’t see how anyone could know you and not love you.”
― Greer Macallister, Girl in Disguise

“With a flourish, I spun half the man away, leaving the other half in place. Some nights, I left the head and shoulders behind, some nights, the legs and feet. The audience seemed to embrace both possibilities. No matter which half went where, they cried out in unison, disbelieving. They sucked in all their breath and let it all out like a single breathing person all together. The shock and the terror and the shared impossibility made a single fantastical creature of them, I made a creature of them.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“To be known for oneself is a powerful gift.”
― Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury

“things that weren’t said out loud didn’t happen. If we didn’t acknowledge things we didn’t want to be true, we could keep them hidden in the dark.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie